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Jodi Arias Trial: Defense to present closing arguments

Defendant Jodi Arias listens to prosecutor Juan Martinez makes his closing arguments during her trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, May 2, 2013.

/ The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, Pool

(AP) PHOENIX - Jodi Arias' defense attorneys were set to present closing arguments Friday in the murder case that has become a tabloid and cable TV sensation with its graphic tales of sex and lies and has attracted spectators from around the country who line up as early as 2 a.m. for a chance to score a few open seats in the courtroom.

PICTURES: Slain boyfriend of Jodi Arias
PICTURES: Jodi Arias murder trial

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Cops: N.Y. man arrested after refusing to pay for ice cream

William Hotz

/ NCPD
(CBS) VALLEY STREAM, N.Y. - A man from Long Island, N.Y. has been arrested after a dispute over free ice cream turned violent, police say.
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Missing six-year-old Miss. girl found safe

Jashayla Markiaya Hopson, 6, was found safe ON Wednesday, May 1, 2013, after allegedly being kidnapped form her Mississippi school the previous day.

/ Alabama Department of Public Safety
(CBS) MOBLIE, Ala. - An Alabama woman has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of Jashayla Markiaya Hopson, a Mississippi girl who was found safe Wednesday after going missing from her school, reports say.Continue »

Jurors hear voicemail saying Michael Jackson was sick

Michael Jackson announcing his planned concert series at the London O2 Arena, March 5, 2009.

/ AP Photo/Joel Ryan, file
(AP) LOS ANGELES - Five days before Michael Jackson died, his manager called the singer's doctor, Conrad Murray, told him Jackson was sick, and implored him to have blood tests done, according to a voicemail played Thursday in court.Continue »

Deliberations go on in abortion doctor's murder trial

Dr. Kermit Gosnell during an interview with the Philadelphia Daily News at his attorney's office in Philadelphia, March 8, 2010.

/ AP Photo/Philadelphia Daily News, Yong Kim

(CBS/AP) PHILADELPHIA - A jury has finished its second full day of deliberations in the murder trial of a Philadelphia abortion doctor without reaching a verdict.

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Police: Man fires shots, shoots self at Houston airport

A man reportedly fired shots into the air and then shot himself at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport Thursday; this picture inside the airport is from Nov. 20, 2012.

/ AP Photo/David J. Phillip

(CBS/AP) A man fired two shots in the air with an assault rifle before shooting himself Thursday at north Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport, CBS affiliate KHOU reports.

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Prosecutor blasts Jodi Arias in closing statement

Defendant Jodi Arias looks at the jury as they enter the courtroom during her trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. Arias is on trial for the killing of her boyfriend, Travis Alexander in 2008.

/ AP/ David Wallace

(AP) PHEONIX - A prosecutor on Thursday portrayed Jodi Arias as a manipulative liar who stalked her ex-boyfriend and killed him in grisly fashion before courting the media spotlight in her sensational murder case.

PICTURES: Slain boyfriend of Jodi Arias
PICTURES: Jodi Arias murder trial

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Reward upped for Chesimard on 40th anniversary of crime

Joanne Chesimard

/ FBI
(AP) NEWARK, N.J. - The reward for the capture and return of a fugitive member of a black militant group convicted of murdering a New Jersey state trooper was doubled to $2 million Thursday on the 40th anniversary of the bloody gun battle.Continue »

Dead newborn found in soft cooler at Ill. recycling plant

The body of a newborn baby boy was reportedly found in this soft-shell cooler on a conveyor belt at a Chicago Ridge, Ill. recycling plant on May 1, 2013.

/ Chicago Ridge Police via CBS Chicago
(CBS) CHICAGO RIDGE, Ill. - Workers at a recycling plant in Chicago Ridge, Ill. found a dead newborn boy inside a cooler on a conveyor belt Wednesday morning, CBS Chicago reports.Continue »

Woman declared dead in Pa. turns up alive in Fla.

Brenda Heist in an April 26, 2013 photo taken by the Monroe County, Fla. Sheriff's Office.

/ AP Photo/Lititz Borough Police

(CBS/AP) LITITZ, Pa. - Brenda Heist, a 53-year-old central Pennsylvania woman who mysteriously disappeared after dropping off her children for school 11 years ago, has surfaced in Florida.

She tells police she traveled there on a whim with homeless hitchhikers, slept under bridges and survived by scavenging food and panhandling, authorities said Wednesday.

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